We're about halfway through our trip, in Santa Barbara at the moment and I think it's time for another update. I'm sure all my readers (all two of them - mum & dad) are dying to hear more about our trip. Yosemite When we planned the trip, we hadn't really thought through the Yosemite part, or hadn't taken in count that the park could be covered in snow and you normally need snow chains for your car to enter the park during the winter months. Luckily it ha...

We've been away for 10 days, but my gosh it feels so much longer... The benefits of traveling with your sister.. ;) Just kidding! But seriously, we've just seen so many places it makes it feel like we've been away forever. Chicago So we started the trip with a two day stopover in Chicago, which turned out to be a five day stopover thanks to the snow storm. Apparently it was the third biggest storm in history to hit Chicago. I wouldn't have minded it so much an...

In my last text I forgot to introduce my fellow companion, my lovely sister Liina. We have been talking about this road trip for ages, since I was fifteen or so.. And this summer we finally had the chance to take this 1 month vacation.So there we were at the airport, planning this trip and talking what we want out of it.. and Liina said "Well actually I'm looking forward to cheap outlets and shopping" and there was me thinking that this trip was about s...

We haven't been able find working computers for a while, so now I have a bunch of stories for you.. I'll try to write as many, before my time runs up.So last week we were in San Francisco, it was a nice city, but because we were staying at this very seedy part of town, our first experssions weren't that good. Once we walked around a bit further it was actually quite charming city with victorian houses and the steep steep hills (you should've seen Liina coming d...

It's a week into our trip now and we've already seen lots. So let's start from the beginning... Exactly a week ago, mum dropped us off at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. It was raining, cold and gray. We got on our flight to Frankfurt and everything went smoothly until we arrived there.. our connecting flight to US was canceled!! We were meant to fly to Chicago and change there to catch the Seattle flight, but so many flights had been canceled and there was no chance to...